Warner
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the medieval personal name Wamier, of Germanic origin meaning 'guard-army'; or a different form of Warrener
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 34 countries · latest register: St Kitts & Nevis, 2026
/ˈwɔː(ɹ)nə(ɹ)/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Warner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 73rd most common surname.
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 104(measured from records)
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 1K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 2.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 531 (measured from records)
- 1 in 104 (inferred from the name graph)
83,781 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from the medieval personal name Wamier, of Germanic origin meaning 'guard-army'; or a different form of Warrener.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Warner, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Warner counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #350 | 83,781 | 1 in 4K | 84K | Warner | 531 |
| GB United Kingdom | #296 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | 5 | Warner | 250 |
| CA Canada | #357 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | 1 | Warner | 199 |
| AU Australia | #353 | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | 1 | Warner | 188 |
| IE Ireland | #322 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Warner | 50 |
| JM Jamaica | #73 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Warner | 12 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 516 | 1 in 104 | 516 | — | 26 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 99 | 1 in 1K | 99 | — | 5 |
83,781 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Warner is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Transferred use of the surname, which is from a medieval personal name ~ given name seems to have been first WARREN introduced to Britain by the Normans. It is of Germanic origin, from war(in) ‘guard’ + heri, hari ‘army’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, John William, US politician
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In German, männl. Vom., niederdeutsche Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Irish, An English name of dual Old-French derivation in Co. Cork since mid-seventeenth century
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
English: transferred use of the surname derived from the medieval English given name corresponding to WERNER .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- H. B. Warnerb. 1875GBEnglish film and theatre actor (1876–1958)
- Harry Warnerb. 1881PLAmerican film studio executive (1881-1958)
- Jack Warnerb. 1892CAAmerican film executive (1892–1978)
- John Warnerb. 1927USAmerican lawyer and politician (1927–2021)
- David Warnerb. 1941GBBritish actor (1941–2022)
- Mark Warnerb. 1954USUnited States Senator from Virginia
- Marilyn Mansonb. 1969USnot in their usual nameAmerican musician (born 1969)
- Malcolm-Jamal Warnerb. 1970USAmerican actor (1970–2025)
- Amelia Warnerb. 1982GBBritish composer and former actress
- Damian Warnerb. 1989CACanadian decathlete
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)70 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 84K | #375 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 82K | #344 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 80K | #394 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 516 | #7 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 99 | #164 |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Warner mean, and where does it come from?
- from the medieval personal name Wamier, of Germanic origin meaning 'guard-army'; or a different form of Warrener. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Warner?
- In English /ˈwɔː(ɹ)nə(ɹ)/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Warner have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 84 thousand people named Warner, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled warner.
- Where is Warner most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Warner is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 104 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Warner?
- In the United States, the national register counted 83,781 people named Warner in 2010, about 1 in 4.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Warner compared with other names?
- In the United States, Warner is the 350th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Warner?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/warnerThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Warner” — the 350th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.